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The Amplified Bible states that Revelation 2:2 through to 3:18, "your" and "you" are in the singular, referring to the angel of each church. Much of what is said is rebuke and admonishment, so if the angels are heavenly beings, they may serve in some way as representatives of the sinful people in their churches.
According to the Menologion, Clement, a disciple of Paul of Tarsus and one of the Seventy (Philippians 4:3), was the first bishop of Sardis. [1] Little is known about the ancient bishopric of Sardis, with the notable exception of Saint Melito, a contemporary of Marcus Aurelius from the 2nd century, [2] whom some sources refer to as the second bishop of Sardis [3] —citing the "improbability ...
"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead."'" [7] The Textus Receptus has the words Biblical Greek: το ονομα, romanized: to onoma, the name.
Most scholars think it probable that Melito intended to present a list of 22 books, which was common for Hebrew bible canon lists before and after Melito. [10] [11] [5] [12] The list places the Book of Numbers before Leviticus, the opposite order of most canon lists. This is a feature also found in the Cheltenham List and de Sectis. This is a ...
Sardis had an early Christian community and is referred to in the New Testament as one of the seven churches of Asia. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus refers to the Sardians as not finishing what they started, being about image rather than substance. [9] [better source needed] Remains of Byzantine shops and the Gymnasium The gymnasium complex ...
Peri Pascha (Greek: Περὶ Πάσχα) (English title On the Pascha) is a 2nd-century homily of Melito of Sardis written between A.D.160 and 170 in Asia Minor. It was discovered last century and first published in 1940. [ 1 ]
Melito of Sardis (Greek: Μελίτων Σάρδεων Melítōn Sárdeōn; died c. 180) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and who held a foremost place among the early Christian bishops in Asia due to his personal influence and his literary works, most of which have been lost. What has been recovered, however, has ...
Church EA was a simple aisled basilica [4] located in the Pactolus valley just beyond the southwest walls of Sardis. Although there are no known historical records of its initial construction, identification of coinage found during excavation suggests that Church EA may have been built in the middle of the fourth century AD, nearly a century before the first Christian building of its kind was ...